Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright died of cancer Wednesday aged 84. Summary Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright died of cancer Wednesday at 84. Albright was appointed the first female Secretary of State by President Bill Clinton, the highest-ranking woman in US history to that point. Madeleine Albright believed in a “muscular internationalism” and pushed unsuccessfully to intervene in Bosnia and Rwanda to combat genocide. She was the leading advocate for the US intervention in Kosovo to protect the …
